Former state attorney general remembers Trump’s 2017 ‘Muslim travel ban’
Catherine Cruz

It wasn’t that long ago that Hawaiʻi filed suit over a Muslim travel ban instituted by President Donald Trump during his first administration. Former state Attorney General Douglas Chin led the fight challenging the ban.
Speaking to The Conversation, Chin reflected on that pivotal time and shared his take on some of the legal challenges presented by the first 100 days of Trump’s second administration.
“There was this sense of, ‘Hey, if the government is going to start attacking one group because of their religion or because of their ethnicity, then what’s going to stop them from coming after other groups?'” Chin said.
“This kind of reminds a lot of us of what our parents or our grandparents faced if they were of Japanese descent when there were internment camps that happened during World War II,” Chin added. “So it really did strike a nerve.”
With a more conservative U.S. Supreme Court now compared to during the first Trump administration, Chin said it remains to be seen how all the current lawsuits will play out.